Re: Why does XP seem to outperform OS X on Macbook Pro?
- From: Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:37:17 GMT
Bob Feduniak:
My wife & I each have Macbook Pros with XP installed using Boot Camp.
We've both noticed our machines having more wireless broadband
connectivity problems on the Mac side than the Windows side. There
are more frequent interrupted connections and more frequent really
noticeable performance slowdowns. It happens independent of wireless
provider, physical location, website being accessed, or task being
performed.
I assume (but do not know) that the machine uses the same internal
physical devices for wireless reception for both XP and OS X. Is XP
simply more reliable/stable for wireless than OS X, or does this sound
like some weird coincidence?
One doesn't hear much about dropped connections (on any platform) now
that the dial-up modem is dead. That is an anomaly that might need
attention from Apple.
As for speed, the ability to run Windows natively on Mac hardware has
made direct speed comparisons possible. I have known this for a long
time, but have reconfirmed it with Windows installations on two MacBook
Pros--Windows XP Pro provides a faster Internet experience _and_ faster
networking. It has to be a case of the software making better use of
the hardware, because they certainly rely on the same hardware. Perhaps
its not surprising; Windows has from its beginning been used in
environments in which networking speed and reliability directly affect
the bottom line, and where enterprise users will simply not accept poor
network performance. When the Mac was growing up that was not so much
the case.
I don't use Windows all that often, but when I do it is for the
acquisition of astronomical images at a telescope, which must then be
moved over the wireless network (802.11n) to other Mac hardware running
either Mac OS or XP Pro. If Windows is the local machine the connection
occurs faster (time elapsed between clicking the mouse and having
folders on the remote machine appear on the local desktop) without
regard to which OS the remote machine is running. And I am always taken
aback by the speed of the file transfers--the same network that is
Mac-only the great majority of the time, now moving data much faster. I
never think about it when the network is Mac only because it seems fast
enough (except for one Intel iMac running OS X only that _always_ has
slow wireless networking for reasons I cannot figure out).
Not quite enough to make me into a Windows switcher, but networking
speed is a redeeming quality of Windows that goes some distance in
making up for Windows' one or two shortcomings.
Davoud
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without an anti-technology lobby to drag us down.
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